We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Our stories are different; our pain is the same.
The stories we tell about each other matter very much. The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter. And most of all, I think the way that we participate in each other's stories is of deep importance.
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.
We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.
We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.
Everyone's story is different, and we can't really be inside them.
We're all going to keep telling love stories, we're all going to tell hero stories. It's all a question of what your own thumbprint, your own DNA, is, and what it brings to the table that makes it unique.
I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.
The stories we can tell are those that happen to us; we meet, work, live, laugh, love, demonstrate, strive in community.
Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.